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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mikhail Laksin, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Subhankar Chatterjee, Hampton, NJ (US);
Volker Linzer, Carlstadt, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sun Chemical Corporation, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M 1/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M 1/18 ;
Abstract
The present invention is for a method and associated apparatus whereby low viscosity flexograhic printing inks having a viscosity controlling diluent are used in implementing wet trapping of sequentially applied ink layers by controlling the time between ink layer applications such that sufficient diluent evaporates from an applied layer to increase the first applied layer viscosity sufficiently to wet trap a subsequently applied superposed ink layer.